TEACHER: Justyna Pawlaczyk
SCHOOL: Edu Owls Polish Saturday School in Leicester, United Kingdom
RUNNING TIME: 45-minute lesson
CLASS: Lesson for students aged 10-15.
SUMMARY:
This lesson plan was created to help children and young people understand that despite different times, values such as strength, courage, perseverance, love, and coping with difficulties are timeless. Contemporary challenges, such as social pressure, emotional difficulties, or problems related to various kinds of existential crises, also require courage and resilience. Showing how people coped in extreme conditions of war, captivity, and an uncertain future can help young people better understand how to overcome problems, where to draw strength and joy from life, and how to appreciate what they have.
The stories included in this plan are true, based on the experiences and life stories of the author's family members. None of the mentioned individuals are still alive; all information comes from conversations with both the heroes themselves and their living children. The plan includes commemorative photographs from wartime and later periods.
The plan can be modified and adapted to the specific group of students.